Frank Pagani

Frank Pagani (died 1968) was a Marcano crime family capo who was in charge of the family's connection to Cuba. He was murdered by Lincoln Clay in 1968.

Biography
Frank Pagani was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to a family of Italian descent. His father robbed banks for twenty years, and he taught the young Frank to be loyal and never to snitch. The younger Pagani would go on to join the Marcano crime family in 1939, moving contraband for Don Sal Marcano. Pagani helped Tommy Marcano in escaping from Havana, Cuba during the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and he was given control of the smuggling rackets in Tickfaw Harbor, New Orleans as a reward. He settled down and had a wife and three daughters, becoming rich. However, Lincoln Clay came along and shattered the peace in 1968, attacking his rackets and cutting off his sources of income. He would track his car down using a special device supplied to him by CIA agent John Donovan, and Clay succeeded in overturning Pagani's car after a chase. He shot Pagani with a shotgun before interrogating him, and he discovered that the robbery of the Federal Reserve Bank of New Orleans was motivated by Marcano's desire to acquire some gold plates to be counterfeited by a Cuban criminal named Alvarez. He died in Clay's arms before he could tell him what the plates were for; Clay shut his eyes for him.